July 2014

My husband does not do birthdays. When I first met him over 20 years ago, this truly puzzled me. Birthdays ...

“How did the Jews become a global people?”“They got pushed around a bunch.”“They had to go to different places.”Indeed. Looking ...

Its ribs and wings night.  I’m with my husband and eight month old son for two weeks at the camp ...

Last week I stood in a room full of Jewish leaders who made me hopeful about the future of the ...

“Where do we start?”That’s a question I hear often from groups of people seeking to make an impact in their ...

Jon Stewart, in his July 21 episode of The Daily Show, viscerally demonstrated what many of us, I am sure, ...

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Ruth Abusch-Magder Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder, PhD. is the Rabbi-in-Residence at Be’chol Lashon and the editor of the blog Tzeh U’llimad. ...

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I used to think that there were two different mindsets when it came to living Jewishly: the experience of those ...